Angel's Garden - Garden of Remembrance

15 June 2017 FEHD approved the keeping of foetal remains at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery and requested the Board to further revise the Rules of the Catholic Cemeteries and submit to them the proposed fees for the keeping of foetal remains. 16 June 2017 The Board provided FEHD with the further revised Rules of the Catholic Cemeteries and the proposed fees for the keeping of foetal remains. 24 June 2017 The first still-born baby was kept at the Garden of Remembrance of the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. 3 July 2017 FEHD granted its official approval for the Rules of the Catholic Cemeteries and the fees for the keeping of foetal remains. May 2018 The Board resolved to further improve the infrastructure of the Garden, add in planters and a Naming Wall to increase the number of foetal remains that can be kept at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. July 2018 Remains of 20 foetuses were kept at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery since FEHD’s approval in 2017. B. Proposed Operations to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of the HKSAR Government in 2017 (currently adopted at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery) The Garden of Remembrance is a communal place of rest in the Catholic Cemetery designated for keeping foetal remains, born of Catholic parent(s), where no Form 13 under section 18(a) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, Cap. 174 has been issued in respect of the foetus, i.e. less than 24 weeks after gestation under the current laws of Hong Kong. No specific lot would be allocated to individual set of foetal remains. The entire area within the Garden of Remembrance will be subject to reuse after five years as the remains is expected to be totally absorbed by nature by the end of the said period. The foetal remains shall therefore, be kept within the Garden of Remembrance permanently and thus, no exhumation is required. The following method shall be adopted to handle foetal remains at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery.